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Fifth anniversary of first commercial Rokot launch

Submit on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 00:54

On 17 March 2002 Russia-built lightweight Rokot rocket blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in Northern Russia, carrying two NASA/DLR science Grace spacecraft. The twin GRACE satellites were successfully deployed into a near polar orbit.

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